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Women of the Church: What Every Catholic Should Know, is McShea's third book. It appeared in April 2024 from Ignatius Press and the Augustine Institute. An innovative survey of the history of the Catholic Church centered on both extraordinary and ordinary Catholic women over the centuries, it counters a longstanding view that, over time, women played only a limited role in the development of Catholic traditions and institutions. The book is \"a marvelous and genuinely impressive tour through the history of the Church,\" according to Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., director of the Thomistic Institute. Margaret Kelly, former CEO of RE/MAX, calls it \"a beautiful treasury of inspiring stories of women [of] incredible strength and courage.\" The book has also been endorsed by Princeton University's Robert P. George, Harvard University's James Hankins, author Carrie Gress, and EWTN's Fr. Gerald Murray, among others.
McShea's second book, La Duchesse: The Life of Marie de Vignerot, Cardinal Richelieu's Forgotten Heiress Who Shaped the Fate of France, came out in March 2023 from Pegasus Books. It is the first modern, scholarly biography of Marie de Vignerot, the Duchesse d'Aiguillon (1604-1675), who was the Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu's niece, heiress, and protégé. Forgotten in the modern era but well known to popes, monarchs, leading authors and artists, and several future canonized Catholic saints of her time, Vignerot was one of the most powerful and influential Frenchwomen of the early modern era, impacting religious, cultural, and political life within and far beyond the borders of her own country. Praised so far in The Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, The Catholic Thing, and Foreword, among other publications, McShea's biography restores Vignerot to her rightful place in the history of France and in the history of religion and culture in the early modern era.
Additionally, Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France, McShea's first book, appeared in July 2019 as part of the University of Nebraska Press series \"France Overseas: Studies in Empire and Decolonization.\" It is a history of the French Jesuit mission to indigenous North Americans in the 17th and 18th centuries, offering a comprehensive view of a transatlantic religious enterprise in which secular concerns were integral. With the book, McShea contributes to understandings of the early modern Atlantic World and the relationship of religion to French imperialism in the pre-Revolutionary era. Praised in America Magazine, Connections, First Things, The Journal of Jesuit Studies, and a number of other publications, the book was re-published as a paperback in 2021. Apostles of Empire also received a first-place book award from the Catholic Press Association.\"
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Selected Articles, Essays, and Book Reviews
The Catholic Church's Summer of 1776
Article for The National Catholic Register, web edition, 6 Jul. 2026
\"Carroll and other Catholics who became American revolutionaries were . . . outlying figures within the Church of their era. And while some Catholic statesmen in other countries took note when Britain’s rebellious Atlantic Seaboard colonies declared their independence, Carroll’s role was minor news in the larger Catholic world at the time. / What were some of the events and trends that, by contrast, preoccupied leading Catholic statesmen and churchmen in the summer of 1776? Let’s take a look . . . \" Click here for more.
The Women the Vatican Forgot
Article for First Things, web edition, 18 Mar. 2026
\"Last week, the Vatican Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith released a synodal study group’s final report on 'The Participation of Women in the Life and Leadership of the Church.' As a historian who has been examining the diverse roles that women have played in the Church in more distant centuries, I was looking forward to the document’s engagement with Catholicism’s past as a source of wisdom for today . . . . I was all the more disappointed . . . that the report lacked basic historical grounding.\" Click here for more.
The Catholic Church and Female Leadership: A 'Woman Problem' or a History Problem?
Article for America Magazine (20 May 2025)
\"I wonder how reactions to Pope Francis’ high-level appointments of women would have differed—across the entire traditionalist-progressive spectrum—if every Catholic commentator had learned somewhere along the way even half of the aforementioned history, either from better informed Catholic educators or from historically rigorous and well-rounded resources promoted by Catholic leaders. I suspect they would not have universally characterized what the late pope was up to in this area as so 'unprecedented' . . . \" Click here for more.
The Feminine Genius and Catholic History
Article for Church Life Journal, the web journal of the McGrath Institute at the University of Notre Dame (20 May 2025)
\"Since I was a girl, I have heard numerous, general messages from Catholic leaders about 'the feminine genius' and 'the dignity of woman.' I have at times received from them, too, pious portraits of a small group of Biblical women and widely venerated female saints, such as Thérèse of Lisieux. But where it comes to what I know, write, and teach others today about the great variety of compelling women in Catholic history, I have had to learn most of it outside the pale of institutionalized Catholicism. . . \" Click here for more.
Little Convents on the Prairie
Article for The Ford Forum, the web journal of the Ford Presidential Foundation (5 Sep. 2024)
\"Although I have been writing and teaching about the history of Catholicism in both Europe and the Americas for a decade and a half, I am still learning things about my own country that surprise me because of my early-life cultural formation. These days, I am especially coming to appreciate the contributions to the world Laura Ingalls knew of Catholic women, thanks to ongoing new work by historical specialists . . .\" Click here for more.
Emigrants for Art's Sake
Article for Church Life Journal, the web journal of the McGrath Institute at the University of Notre Dame (2 Aug. 2024)
\"I recently was captivated . . . by the stories of two Catholic artists of the nineteenth century, a Swiss woman named Emilie Linder and an African-American woman named Edmonia Lewis. I learned of them while doing the research for my newest book . . . . Although I wove into the book’s narrative some stories of important female artists from across the ages, such as Plautilla Nelli of Renaissance-era Florence, I was unable to devote much space to these two remarkable figures. So here are their stories . . . \" Click here for more.
Influential Women of the Church: An Interview with Bronwen McShea
Written interview for Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute (2 May 2024)
\"Some of the Church’s most honored, famous saints, such as Teresa of Avila . . . faced fierce opposition at times from Catholic authorities . . . . It’s tempting for Catholics today, accustomed to how much the Church has elevated such saints, to assume that their paths to sanctity and recognition by the Church were straightforward and even easy in some regards. But the study of such figures in historical context helps to shake us out of that false assumption.\" Click here for more.
The 'Cabrini' Film and Catholicism's History Problem
Article for Sapientia, the blog of Fordham University's Center on Religion and Culture (22 Mar. 2024)
\"While doing . . . viewers the service of informing them about Cabrini’s legacy, the film presents its protagonist as 'the first woman ever to lead an overseas mission.' This betrays a lack of awareness of Catholicism’s already rich history by Cabrini’s time of female-led overseas missions and service to the downtrodden. Indeed, women had been serving in missions, some of them leading their own communities, for three centuries . . . \" Click here for more.
Markus Friedrich: The Jesuits: A History
Book review in the Austrian History Yearbook, first published online (13 Feb. 2024)
\"Markus Friedrich has produced the best one-volume, comprehensive history to date of the Society of Jesus, the Catholic Church's most storied and controversial religious order. The Jesuits: A History—an elegant translation by John Noël Dillon of Friedrich's German work of 2016—examines the order from many angles. Arranged thematically . . . The Jesuits draws widely and deeply from developed bodies of specialized literature on five overarching themes . . . \" Click here for more.
Mary Dunn: Where Paralytics Walk and the Blind See: Stories of Sickness and Disability at the Juncture of Worlds
Book review in Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture 92/4 (2023), pp. 990-992
\"Dunn makes a case for historians to be more open about their personal reasons for working on projects they do and about their participation in the universally human quest for meaning . . . . She demonstrates that more rather than less self-conscious or unembarrassed presentism can sometimes help us avoid more effectively the uncritical imposition of our own contemporary pieties on our historical subjects’ experiences and worldviews.\" Click here for more.
Kate Cooper: Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions
Review in The Wall Street Journal, 7 Oct. 2023 (weekend edition)
\"To those of us who thought we knew Augustine well, Queens of a Fallen World opens new vistas on his world and legacy. Ms. Cooper shows how his life and thought were imprinted by women from diverse strata with whom he had real and complicated relationships. Her treatments of all figures in her book demonstrate sympathy and respect not only for their complex humanity and circumstances, but also for their religious beliefs and spiritual factors at work among them.\" Click here for more.
A New Kind of Literary Patroness
Book excerpt published in The Lamp, print edition, also available online (Easter 2023), pp. 10-12
\". . . Around the time of her foiled kidnapping by the Queen Mother’s henchmen in 1632—something she had faced with a courage that had shocked the men around her—Marie lent support to an aspiring book author named Jacques du Bosc. He was a young Franciscan friar who had much to say about the dignity and moral and intellectual capacities of women, whom he believed were the equals of men in numerous respects . . . \" To read more, you need a subscription to this linked resource.
The Duchess Who Shaped the Fate of France
Book excerpt published in First Things, web edition (7 Mar. 2023)
\". . . Richelieu entrusted Marie not just with one of the largest fortunes in Europe but also with titles, offices, vast lands and palaces envied by royalty, and patronage powers exercised by few men at the time, let alone other women. He knew that Marie would work better than anyone else to preserve and enhance his legacy in ways that would serve France, the Catholic religion, and the honor of the Richelieu name . . . \" Click here for more.
The 'Priestly' Duchess and the Lay Foundations of the American Church
Feature article published in the American Catholic Studies Newsletter and online (Fall 2021), pp. 8-19
\". . . D’Aiguillon was known and admired by kings, statesmen, archbishops, and popes in her time. Yet she is all but forgotten in ours. This is partly due to a longstanding historiographical tendency, where the Church’s missionary past is concerned, to relegate lay patrons to an inert backdrop—to regard their deep pockets merely as banks, so to speak—while focusing almost exclusively on the priests and religious engaged directly in evangelization . . . \" Click here for more.
The Old Evangelization
Book review published in First Things, print edition, also available online (Nov. 2021), pp. 55-59
\". . . Because the modern Church thinks and says many programmatic things about evangelization, Catholics and scholars alike presume that the Church of more distant times did, too. They also assume that decisions related to evangelization made by churchmen of the past stemmed from conscious stands they, with the Church, took—drawing consciously upon formulated principles and action plans. But Catholics generally did not function this way before modern times . . . \" Click here for more.
When Rome Policed Art
Article published in First Things, print edition also available online (Aug./Sep. 2021), pp. 23-30
\". . . The revolutionary moment for the regulation of Catholic art, as for many other aspects of ecclesiastical governance, was 1917. . . . Suddenly, even obscure, devout artists in places like rural Flanders found their work scrutinized and condemned—by officials speaking on behalf of the Church Universal, no less! Such expansive and minute exercises of centralized ecclesiastical authority would have surprised even the inquisitors of pre-Enlightenment Europe . . . \" Click here for more.
Missions en Nouvelle-France
Article for the digital project La France en Amérique, Collection de Patrimoines Partagés of the Bibliothque Nationale de France and the Library of Congress (May 2021)
\"From the early 17th century until the Seven Years War (1754-1763), the French Crown sponsored many Catholic missions among Native American peoples in New France. At a time when European expansionism was both justified and energized by the Gospel call to 'make disciples of all nations,' these missions were dedicated to spreading Catholic faith and worship and saving souls. They were also intended to forge bonds of alliance between . . . \" Click here for more.
Our Year in Books: 2020
Contribution to annual First Things web edition roundtable (25 Dec. 2020)
\". . . These books contained some of the earliest sustained defenses of the moral and intellectual equality of men and women. And they were written by deeply Christian authors well before the Enlightenment era that is over-credited with the germination of recognizably feminist discourses. For example, Marie Le Jars de Gournay, Michel de Montaigne’s protégé and editor, produced Égalité des Hommes et des Femmes in 1622 and Grief des Dames in 1626 . . . \" Click here for more.
Seventy-Five Years Ago in Silesia
Essay published in First Things, web edition (26 Nov. 2020)
\". . . Seventy-five years ago the region of Silesia . . . was suffering the aftershocks of an evacuation order put out by the Red Army . . . . In the dead of winter the many thousands who obeyed the order headed into the Beskid Mountains. About 18,000 froze to death along the way. / But many stayed put in Silesia, ignoring the evacuation order. The Red Army used this as an excuse to brutalize them. As was regularly the case where the Red Army marched, Russian soldiers raped countless women, including nuns. Some also hunted for priests . . .\" Click here fore more.
Dale Van Kley: Reform Catholicism and the International Suppression of the Jesuits in Enlightenment Europe
Book review in The Sixteenth Century Journal 51/1 (Spring 2020), pp. 314-316
\". . . Van Kley . . . sheds light on an understudied reformist strain of Catholicism that was influential in the upper echelons of the church in the mid- and late-eighteenth century. He demonstrates that the Suppression was achieved by an international network of reformist churchmen and lay officials committed to nationalizing . . . models of ecclesial governance and a sharply Augustinian (and in many cases Jansenist) turn in theology and evotional practice . . . \" For more, click here (Sixteenth Century Journal) or here (Academia.edu).
The Age of the Laity? Historical Reconsiderations in Light of the Crisis
Article in the Josephinum Journal of Theology 26/1-2 (2019), pp. 80-92
\"This article offers historical and ecclesiological perspectives on the position of the lay Catholic faithful during this period of crisis over clerical sexual abuse and cover-ups. It addresses incongruities in the post-Vatican II era between, on the one hand, Church teaching and pastoral rhetoric regarding the participation and dignity of the laity in today’s Church and, on the other, starker realities of restrictions on lay involvement in the ordering of ecclesiastical affairs . . . \" For more, click here (academia.edu).
Alison Forrestal: Vincent de Paul, the Lazarist Mission, and French Catholic Reform
Book review in the Journal of Religious History 42/4 (Dec. 2018), pp. 624-626
\". . . With her masterly monograph, Forrestal transcends a 350-year hagiographical tradition, putting it into conversation with new archival findings . . . . In place of the sentimentalised peasant-priest whose kindness and humility stupefied aristocrats into sudden piety and love of the poor, Forrestal presents an educated, ambitious leader whose reforming vision, sense of God's purposes in his life, and skill in navigating diverse social spaces matured over time . . .\" For more, click here (academia.edu).
Bishops Unbound
Article published in First Things, print edition, also available online (Jan. 2019), pp. 33-39
\". . . There can be no doubt that the Church needed to reconstitute herself to ensure her liberty in the modern age. But recent evolutions of the papal and episcopal offices have had the unintended effect of exacerbating conditions in which sexual predators and their protectors in the hierarchy can get away with their corruption. The same evolutions have erected structural barriers, too, which make it almost impossible for concerned laypersons and rank-and-file clergymen . . .\" Click here for more.
Pope Francis as Historian
Essay published in First Things, web edition (23 Mar. 2017)
\". . . As a Christian of the twenty-first century, I applaud and pray success for the Holy Father's continuation of efforts by Lutherans, Catholics, and others who profess Jesus Christ to strive toward reunion in a spirit of prayerfulness and truth. I share, too, in the pope's concerns that Christian evangelization should safeguard and strengthen the world's richly diverse cultures . . . . But as an historian . . . I wince at the pope's historical formulations . . .\" Click here for more.
American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Catholicism Global, by John T. McGreevy
Book review (in larger symposium) in American Catholic Studies 127/3 (Fall 2016), pp. 59-61
(Note: This review symposium was awarded 1st Place for Best Review at the June 2017 Catholic Press Awards ceremony in Quebec City, sponsored by the Catholic Press Association of the United States & Canada.)
\"Nineteenth-century Jesuits—easily caricatured for their exuberant neo-scholasticism, sentimental devotionalism, and ultramontanism—are refreshingly humanized in this book's unexpected narrative. These same attributes, so in tension with cultural shifts in the post-revolutionary West, facilitated Jesuit resistance to extreme, ethnocentric forms of nationalism and fertilized new, transnational networks . . .\" For more, click here (academia.edu) or here (American Catholic Studies).
Jesuit Missionary Perspectives and Strategies across the Early Modern Globe
Introduction and guest editing of special issue of Journal of Jesuit Studies 1/2 (Spring 2014), pp. 171-176
(Note: McShea also translated from French Muriel Clair's article in this issue, \"'Seeing These Good Souls Adore God in the Midst of the Woods’: The Christianization of Algonquian Nomads in the Jesuit Relations of the 1640s,\" pp. 283-301.)
\"Jesuit missionaries who cultivated Catholic worship and belief across the early modern world are increasingly a focus of interdisciplinary scholarly research. Due . . . to spreading interest in Jesuit history per se far beyond the older, 'in house' scholarship of the Society of Jesus, attention to Jesuit missionaries reflects . . . increasing recognition across the humanities of the role of religion . . .\" For more, click here (academia.edu) or here (Journal of Jesuit Studies).
Presenting the \"Poor Miserable Savage\" to French Urban Elites: Commentary on North American Living Conditions in Early Jesuit Relations
Article in The Sixteenth Century Journal 44/3 (Fall 2013), pp. 83-711
\"In a book by a Catholic missionary working in Canada, published in Paris in 1635 as the third volume of the serial Relations de la Nouvelle France, a passage appeared which may at first seem like unremarkable commentary on New World 'savages' by a scholastically educated European of the era: 'It was the opinion of Aristotle that the world had made three steps...to arrive at the perfection which it possessed in his time. At first . . .'\" For more, click here (academia.edu) or here (Sixteenth Century Journal).
Eve's Patience
Essay in Pilgrim: A Journal of Catholic Experience (27 May 2012), www.pilgrimjournal.com
\"During a recent excursion to Reims in France, while touring a museum housed at the old bishop's residence there, called the Palais du Thau, I encountered a monumental medieval sculpture of Eve which was once on display at the city's cathedral. / I am unsure of the statue’s exact height, but it is larger than life. In stature, it reminded me of a classical Roman sculpture, although in its naturalism it surpassed in beauty many classical pieces I know . . .\" Click here for more.
Noble Savages and Howling Wildernesses—Europe Imagines America
Entry in World History Encyclopedia, Era 6: The First Global Age, 1450-1770 (2011), pp. 794-796
\"Despite the momentous nature of Europe’s discovery of America in the late fifteenth century, the most characteristic feature of European visions of the New World and its inhabitants was not shock but rather a ready desire to assimilate the new people, places, and flora and fauna into traditional European categories . . . . From images of America as a howling wilderness . . . to romanticized notions of the 'noble savage' . . .\" To read more, you need a subscription to this linked resource.
Catholic Mysticism and Utopians
Entry in World History Encyclopedia, Era 6: The First Global Age, 1450-1770 (2011), pp. 822-825
\"Late medieval and early modern Catholicism was marked by a wide array of contributions and responses to the intellectual, religious, and cultural shifts of the period. Two of these shifts, often associated with the humanist movement and the Renaissance, were a new kind of exaltation of the individual as well as a new spirit of confidence in human abilities to create well-ordered and just societies. Mysticism and . . .\" To read more, you need a subscription to this linked resource.
Art, Death, and Resurrection
Essay in Pilgrim: A Journal of Catholic Experience (Lent/Easter 2011), www.pilgrimjournal.com
\". . . Maurice Denis was one of the bearded and earnest Nabis . . . . Late in his teens, his intense piety was incomprehensible to his non-believing father, a railway worker named Eugène, and unnerving even to his devout mother, Hortense. The young Denis was drawn to the idea of religious life, but in a journal entry written before he was eighteen, he explained, 'In lieu of the Cloister, I found the Studio, the Studio with all its frivolity and debauchery . . .'\" Click here for more.
Harvard Springtime
Essay in First Things, print edition, also available online (Aug./Sep. 2003), pp. 12-13
\"The presence of . . . young, faithful Catholics was particularly evident this spring at Harvard. Student attendance has been significant at daily masses, regular Confession, and Rosary groups both at the College and at the Law School. In addition to the annual symposium on pro-life issues put on by the Harvard Society for Law, Life, and Religion . . . Catholic students at Harvard have benefited from discussion groups on Thomas Aquinas, natural law, and the women doctors of the Church . . . \" Click here for more.
England’s \"Gothic and Monkish Education\" in Burke’s Reflections
Article in The University Bookman / Reflections: The Newsletter of the Edmund Burke Society 42/4 (Winter 2002), pp. 52-58
\"As a British statesman and political philosopher, Edmund Burke stood in a peculiar position on the stage of the European Enlightenment. Before 1789, he was ambivalent toward the salon culture of the philosophes and toward the coffee-house chatter and literary production of the growing urban centers . . . . [H]e viewed the assertive atheism and . . . scientific rationalism of Enlightenment society from a . . . distance that . . .\" The rest of this article is currently unavailable online; contact the author if interested in a PDF copy.
A Seminary Reborn: Cardinal Maida's Vision of Renewal
Article in Crisis Magazine (1 Sep. 2000)
\"For 30 years Catholics have watched sadly as schools and parishes all over the country have shut down. Many marvelous structures full of memories, often sitting on prime real estate, have been sold to developers to make way for condos and strip malls. Protests and nostalgia have not been enough to fight the inevitability of bottom-line decisions made by ordinaries facing large deficits. / The story of St. John's Seminary in Plymouth, Michigan, however . . .\" Click here for more.